001Heat. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Hallelujah. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hallelujah. [music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. All right. >> I'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the board of education at 5:00. Mrs. Ming, can we please have the roll call? Frame >> here. >> Henchel Lyren >> here. Maine here, Oliver. >> Panel >> here, motor here. Uh we have six members uh here. So we have established a quorum. Uh we will now take a moment for reflection preceded by the pledge of allegiance. To the flag
002of the United States of America and to the reps nationy and justice for All right. Um, I'd like to announce that following the regular meeting, the board will convene in an executive session for pupil expulsions as provided in Wisconsin statutes 19.85 1B and F. [snorts] It's now time for public comment section. The public may approach the board to make presentation no longer than five minutes per person and 10 minutes per topic. Those persons exceeding these time limits shall be interrupted as deemed necessary by the presiding officer. Members of the board and administration will not respond or further discuss items from public comment at this meeting to remain in compliance with state statutes chapter 19 subchapter 5 open meetings of governmental bodies and the public notice requirements. [clears throat] I'm referencing policy 0167.3 public comment at
003board meetings. I want to remind participants that the presiding officer is guided by the following rules. Letter F. All statements shall be directed to the presiding officer. No person may address or question board members individually. Letter G, the presiding officer will interrupt, warn, or terminate if the participant statement is too lengthy, personally directed, abusive, obscene, or irrelevant. Number two, the presiding officer will request any individual to leave the meeting when that person does not observe reasonable decorum. Number three, the presiding officer will request the assistance of law enforcement officers in the removal of a disorderly person when that person's conduct interferes with the orderly progress of the meeting. Number four, the presiding officer will call for a recess or an adjournment to another time when the lack of public decorum so interferes with the orderly
004conduct of the meeting as to warrant such action. Uh, as uh we always state, if you want to state, please state your name. If you choose not to state your address publicly, you can complete it on a white slip of paper on the podium and give it to our clerk, Mrs. Maine. So, at this time, if there's any uh members of the public that would like to come forward, we invite you to I'm back at school district of from the time of the last meeting. Some of the things that this was extremely concerning. He doesn't know why they weren't in the room window. I informed him that they had been and this year they had been moved out of that room which he didn't know. Um, so there is a meeting tomorrow morning at 9:00
005am with the director of people services, the division chief Keith Went and myself. If anyone would care to attend that meeting, that's where we will be. Um, Chegwin at 9:00 am. Um, beyond that, if anyone would like to attend, I have a live with WBAW on December 2nd. That's Channel 2 News. Um, going back to what Chief went was saying, now that he is aware that the kids are in this room and they have to follow fire drills, they cannot allow the least path resistance every time. So he told me to please know that our children will probably be be removed from the school from their wheelchairs like manhandled, carried, pushed, pulled and dragged out because that's what happens in the event of an emergency and that's how they would have to perform it. Um
006if anything happens to those kids during that time, the school would still be considered liable. So I I don't know how any of you feel about that. like these kids would have to be carried over shoulders, dragged however they would need to be removed from the school. Now that the fire department is aware that this is what the district did with the kids, it is kind of sickening. Like I I can't even believe it. So I hope every one of you feels that. >> Thank you. >> Is there anyone else interested in coming forward for public comment? Seeing none, I'd like to uh ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda. Um [clears throat] one I make a I move that the board of education approve the consent agenda as follows. November 10th uh
0072025 regular meeting minutes. November 10th, 2025 workshop minutes and by monthly financial report. >> Second. >> Okay. We have a motion by Mr. Frame and a second by Mr. Lyins. Um we don't have uh any comment or questions during this session. However, um just so the public knows, we do ask uh many of our board members do ask questions regarding the financials. And if you have any questions after you review, feel free to reach out to any of us personally uh or uh Mr. Gerlock or uh Mr. Steinbart. So with that, if we could please have the role. >> Frame, >> yes. >> Lyance, >> yes. >> Maine, yes. Oliver, >> yes. >> Panel, >> yes. >> Motor, yes. Motion carries 6. Moving forward, can we have a motion regarding um the emergency preparedness manual?
008>> I move that the board of education approve the district emergency preparedness manual in accordance with the 2017 Wisconsin Act 143 and state statutes contained within the legislation. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Mr. Frame, a second by Mr. Lance and um Mr. Steinbart. Mr. Blasco, >> Mr. Blastoski, >> speak to this a little bit. >> There we go. Uh, so our crisis team meets once per month as members of administration, fire, police, the SRO's, uh, Mr. Frame even, uh, joined us one time, which was great to see. Uh, team works to refine emergency preparedness uh, processes uh, and those are largely outlined in our manual. So part 143 requires that we submit this through the board kind of as a formal process prior to going to the DOJ uh which is what
009this process is. So uh no major changes have been made to the safety manual just some organizational changes to make it a little bit easier to follow. >> Thank you. Any questions or comments from uh the board members? Uh and so this is and I believe we've received some really positive feedback on our manual and that we work in partnerships with fire department with uh city planner and we have a whole list within that. Um just a clarification uh when I was a principal the fire department needed to go through each building every year and look in all spaces to make sure that students are safe. Do we continue to do that? >> Yep, we do that. So the fire department does a walk through um of every building. So they'll uh coordinate when we
010do a fire drill. Once they go through, they see everything and uh provide our provide their feedback to us at the end. >> Awesome. And then they also do um sometimes do fire drills where they come to schools. Um so we do our own but they also do theirs as well. Unannounced one at every school. >> Um >> Yes, I believe. >> Okay. And then they give us feed feedback if if students weren't to be safe to change the way we do business. Okay, great. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? >> All right, can we have the role, please? >> Yes. >> Sorry. Maine, yes. Oliver, >> yes. >> Panel, >> yes. >> Frame, >> yes. >> Motor, yes. Motion carries 6. All right. And then this goes into our safety drill. So, can
011we have a motion regarding the accept acceptance of written safety drill evaluations? >> I move that the board of education accept the written safety drill drill evaluations from each uh district school in accordance with the 2017 Wisconsin Act 143 and state statutes contained within the legislation. >> Second. Okay, we have a motion by Mr. Frame and a second by Mr. Lyence. Any uh anything you'd like to share with this portion, Mr. Blascowski? >> Yeah, so similar to the manual, this is part of that uh process as well. So, the documents go out to the state. Um just shows that our principles and our buildings are following the mandatory uh drill schedule. Um each school keeps their own drill. Um, and on the right hand side of each form, there's an opportunity for uh feedback. Um,
012drills this year, the fall drills at least so far have went uh well. Um, we provide a lot of feedback to principles and buildings have actually provided some feedback to us as well. >> Great. Any comments or questions? So, I've uh gone through some of these drill logs and some of them there are spots missing like um >> I think >> yeah with the tornado the violence threat of violence bomb threat and I think Robert's had some missing as well when I was going through it last night. >> There are two different drill lock sheets. one through the building. One that's like a state form. >> Okay. >> Um kind of pull up here. I don't have in front of me, but so that could be the case, but we can I can look into
013that, too. >> Okay. Yeah, the check one one. That's the only one that I see. And then it goes right into Evans. Then I will look for the Roberts one. Yeah, Roberts. They have tornadoes, but none of the uh violence bomb threats in there. Is there is there just some some documentation that's missing then or >> possibly? I'll I'll look into that. Okay. >> Thank you. >> If you could um uh let Mr. Steinbart know so he can let all the board members know and then we can uh share out at our next meeting that that was clarified. Um, and I did notice here too on Chegwin as well as a number of other uh buildings that the fire department actually initials where they come in and do the um unannounced. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.
014Any other questions or comments? [snorts] Okay. Can we have the role, please? >> Maine, yes. Oliver, >> yes. >> Canel, >> yes. Frame. >> Yes. >> Lyance, >> yes. >> Motor, >> yes. Motion carries 6. Uh, now looking at a consideration for approval of administrator handbook. >> If I could have a motion. >> I move that the board of education approve the proposed changes in the administrator handbook. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Mr. Frame, a second by Mr. Lyrence. Mr. Steinbart or Mr. >> Miss Lombardo >> I mean you went we went through this together so um in our executive session walked through we had a number of questions and comments and so is there anything else you'd like to share with us? >> No, there aren't a huge number of changes
015in this. Um, as we talked about when we workshopped it, uh, a lot of this was to bring it into the standard format that we have for all of our other, uh, handbooks. You know, the pieces on non-discrimination. Um, making sure that we kind of delineate all of the the same rules for uh, attendance and the leaves. Um, >> and then the notice did go out to all administrators that moving forward it'll be a one-year contract. >> Um, yep. That's in our new that's in our new handbook as well. So, all of those changes are in there. The big ones were a change to the personal leave, allowing that to roll over to the next year as it does for all of the other employee groups. And then the change of the amount of leave
016that is given to a brand new administrator that comes to our district. Uh that had previously been a a block of days to use and no other days were given then until those were earned through their time in the district. And now it's just a standard set of days just as we do with our other um employee groups. So a lot of standardization to bring it up with the other handbooks. >> Thank you. Uh otherwise any questions or comments. Then we can move to the role please. >> Oliver, [snorts] >> yes. >> Panel, >> yes. >> Frame, >> yes. >> Ly, >> yes. >> Maine, yes. Motor, >> yes. Motion carries 6. Uh and on to our reports. Report for financial and operations. Mr. Steinbart. >> Yes. So um we do have Mr. Greymont here
017for the community and recual report. >> [laughter] >> We tested it earlier. Yeah, I was going to say >> there it is. >> Test it earlier. So, >> all right. Am I on? Okay. Uh, good evening. Bill Greymont, uh, coordinator for the community at Wreck. This is our uh semiannual report and uh in the winter report when I come on I really uh focus uh review the goals staffing but the focus is on the highlights from the previous year and the final numbers. So when the last time I presented I had some in progress goals and some numbers and now this I'll focus on the completed year numbers and where we had we'll have some discussion on some of our efforts to expand programming uh and where we're going and constantly working to improve our
018operations and hopefully it's so well done there. No questions. So, so really um department mission I've presented this before before I really look at this as our strategic uh head of imagine a snowman and this is the top of the snowman the head. So these are our strategic big goals overlaps with what we want to accomplish overlaps with the goals strategic goals of the school board and the school board's uh school district's mission uh to provide services and opportunities for the community. And really when I view this and we simplify it down, it's really about lifelong learning uh in the community and also our overlap to provide lifelong learning and wellness programming for the community as we move forward. The other Y is a big why and I've connected this the last time before. This
019connects kids in the schools to their school and their school community and also provides opportunities uh for constituents in the community to be connected to the greater community, the city and the school district as a whole. And when you're connected to that, you have uh more vested interest in what's happening and going on. So that's part of our goal and how I see it moving uh constantly. Next, if you think about the snowman model, the operational goals we have really, this is how we accomplish our mission and this is how I look at what we're trying to do. I haven't changed these since I've come in. Our goal is we want to expand programming and opportunities for people in the community. If we expand the opportunities, not just there, we want to have increased participation
020in everything. And then internally with us, we want to be more efficient with what we're doing. constant that growth model, that constant growth for procedures so that we do serve the community better and we're good stewards of the community's budget or the school district budget for the community. Um the connection really operationally for how that works really then is our full-time staff. Our full-time staff goal and um I'm going to really rephrase this is that operational model in the middle. We're doing the planning for resources, getting the staff in, doing the budgeting, finding the materials that the instructors and the classes and the people need to conduct the classes that engage with the community directly. So, if you can see, Kent is still on as our programmer. Tammy is our aquatics manager. What I really
021want to highlight today, uh, in the next couple weeks, John Lloyd, uh, after 25 years of service is retiring from the school district. He's had the last 11 years with the recck department and the previous amount of time with that in various jobs across the district. So, we want to wish him well as he moves on and moves into retirement and and as I told somebody sitting in the back of the room maybe off in the corner so he can't be seen. Thomas is going to be joining us um December 10th uh take that role and we'll have a little transition period. Um I'll pull out my old uh deployment days. We're doing a a left seat uh right seat left seat ride. So Tom will be in the right seat on the passenger watching
022for a few days as we transition that and then hopefully a little bit earlier or halfway through they'll transition. John will go to the passenger side and have the opportunity to watch Tom drive the uh car, drive the show a little bit in the uh on the lefthand side and um on December 19th when when uh we have our final farewells and uh that for John, Thomas is ready to move on and carry on with what John did and John's ready to move on to his hobbies and all the stuff he wants to do in retirement. So we hope those guys only the best as they move on. and then rounding out our full-time staff for our operational connections, uh, Sugala and, uh, Julie Mick. So, um, the tactical part then, if you think of
023the bottom of the snowman now, is is this aquatic staff and the recreational staff. They're the ones who run the programs. They're the ones who engage with the community every day. Right now, we're in our uh, winter season where we got about 50, depending on the programming and number of classes, or anywhere between 50 and 75 staff. Just a reminder, during the summer when we plus up, we're between 175 and 200 staff members providing programs. Well, this is where the rubber meets the road. Uh, our numbers over the last three years since since I've taken over, we've had we do have some ups, we do have some downs. Um, as I review, I just really wanted to highlight this is our um recreation activities. Everything really that's outside of the aquatic center and the pools
024that we work with. Um so uh biggest one um just want to kind of highlight our trips and special events are down a little bit this year. Really that's due singularly our letters to Santa program changed significant last year for how we engage with the kids in the community you know in terms of how we're working with curriculum and what time is available for the kids. So that was down about 250 letters that we did not receive. So those individual kids really that takes up the bulk of that special events down when we're moving that way. Um our early childhood programming again revolves around having staff. Our biggest challenge having staff and the ability to connect and have um programs available uh for people to participate in or when staff is not available. Uh so
025that was the major downturn there. um our youth enrichment nights as we look at that uh or classes. We did a significant change in the craft world with how Julie supports that in the amount of time and offered fewer sections this year. Quality of sections hopefully better and programming and and hopefully for Julie as our primary craft person uh on top of what she does is is that balance of life and and moving on and and working that way. Uh I would say though the I highlighted playground there though our playground participation was up. Uh we had 187 student uh kids participating in the summer of 2004. We had uh 241 registered um this year for the summer program. I'm going to touch on that again on a later slide why I believe that increase
026occurred. Um, our WI WPRI tickets uh down a little bit. Um, but youth sports and camps are up. And this is where I want to highlight kind of the connection of being uh a district entity and a district function. Um what we increased in terms of youth sports camps and clinics, our youth sports, uh the fourth and fifth grade wreck program had a significant increase in kids participating in the middle school programs this last year in both the basketball and the volleyball primary programs. That was the biggest jump. We also worked with uh Kevin Flegner uh new athletic director last year um in coordination with his um goal to increase number of clinics offered by coaches in the athletic department to make connections to help recruit kids and bring kids into those programmings. We have
027already been doing many clinics in the basketball and the volleyball world. So we had that model already set up. So we were able to expand and be able to provide that support, the operational support to do the registration, the fee collection and everything else and the advertising and our books so that the coaches and the athletic department could focus on running the programs and doing that. So in those areas we saw significant increases in kids participation. Uh already mentioned the recck leagues. Uh youth partnerships down a little bit but those are our club sport areas and partly is choices from parents. Are they participating in club? are they not competition from clubs outside the community area uh is part of what we look at what's happening there. Our primary partnerships um that are within the
028wreck department and have been traditionally for decades in baseball and the last 15 to 20 years in softball. Uh FYF is Fondelac youth fast pitch. Um um youth baseball uh traditionally has been there and FSE is the Fondelac swim club uh are the big major clubs that have been part of the rec program or part of the school district programming um that we have formed partnerships with. And then finally, our adult fitness uh down a little bit this year. Really, that's due again instructor availability and being able to have people to offer the classes. So, if we look uh if we move into the aquatics world, really that's the two worlds we work in. This is really where Tammy has led the way the last two years uh with the initiatives. Our swimming lessons um
029in expanding really is due to being able to have kids of it of kids. Our primary instructors are high school age kids uh that are lifeguarding and providing the instruction and we were able to expand over the last year and added sessions. So uh just not quite doubling uh the number of kids participating in the swimming lesson programs. Um water buds baby seals is an ondemand program that's weekly. So that that changes from day to day. I really like that format because it's hard when you have a infant or a toddler and that's what it's focused on. Are they sick? Are they not sick? Did I pay for 10 classes? Now I only get two. So this is on demand. You can come at your schedule all year round and not have to worry about
030that. Um our lap swim which is in the mornings is up a bit and then um during the summers again our final our final numbers are in from the summer. We cooperate with the city where the recck department uh provides the staffing and for the fairgrounds county pool and the Taylor City pool. Uh fairgrounds this year that number 20,01 is up significantly. That was up about about 2400 uh visits uh from people coming into the pool this year. Um Taylor is down um this year a little bit um about 800 but during the summer Taylor uh had a heater issue to be up front in the colder water. So if we just look at the FondeLac swim club which swims at that pool in the summer for the long course of 50 meter workouts they
031moved over and swam at fairgrounds this summer. So you just take that daily participation and add that back in. Plus they normally have hosted two meets during the summer. You take the meet attendance and add that back in. Taylor most likely would have been uh the highest numbers it's had since co I if it had not had that going on just at the swim club participation uh for the summer. And again, our aquatic center number uh was up just a bit this year as as we're moving forward for an overall increase again for the last three years. And our final last membership partnership, Silver Sneakers and Optimum relations with Medicare insurance programs. Really Silver Sneakers is down. There was a change last winter in terms of relationships and what options were being offered by individual
032insurance programs. So many of those people left or lost their opportunity to participate through silver sneakers but gain the opportunity to participate in the optimum program uh for the discounted participation in the fitness classes we offer. So that's why those numbers are are changed that way. And our third goal then um no no second first goal for programming participation and third one so uh expanded programming just some highlights of things we were trying to do this last year. Uh the wilderness adventure trip is really then a tie and a connection to working with teachers out of the high school in the adventure program for the FIED program. Um, so what we did is we offered not just a rope high ropes courses, uh, classes that we've done the beginning of June on the the climbing
033equipment you see outside the building and inside the building at the high school. They did a long weekend trip to Garner Dam Scout Camp where they expanded on with trainers at the camp for the high ropes and ropes training and um, then the adventure classes do some kayaking work in the in the flat water in the pool. Well, this is on the Wolf River, so or on the pond, and they get a chance to try kaying on the pond, and they did some rafting. They weren't quite ready to graduate up to putting a kayak on the white water, but they get a chance to experience that adventure versus just doing it in a swimming pool. Uh, and it was tremendous success, and we're working to schedule that in again this year. Again, two examples. The
034coordination with uh Kevin Flegner at the high school with camps and clinics. The two I wanted to focus on a track uh and field clinic brought in almost 50 kids to come and participate and learn different areas of that. That's usually a hard sport to bring people into or get experience and exposure to. So, um I we viewed that as a success this year. And then not just with the athletic area with the music department, the spin camps uh are being offered by uh the marching band and our director that runs Joanne who runs the flag corps for the marching band to try and recruit kids and to become part of that and do that. And those were I think two of our bigger successes. Over the summer, I think our most creative ad in
035the youth enrichment was the fencing opportunity. um we did that during the summer an Olympic sport uh to highlight that and it's being offered again this fall and then our expanded opportunities I really wanted to hit on one of the swimming lessons sessions we offered is called the final swim club swim to success swimming we have attempted to bring in or use the swim team members and have parent members and use this as a swimming lesson but also a recruiting tool to bring kids in my past experiences in the past whereas a 11-year club swim coach, many club programs do this to help recruit again and connect kids into the sport and bring them along. Uh, and this year we had um well, it's the second year we had five kids out of the swimming
036lesson program join the Fondi swim club uh out of that to do that. And then the other unique one, we we kind of uh had an opportunity uh some used paddle boards were for sale. another program wasn't using them. We picked them up very cost-effectively and um have started with instructors very offered that offers a Pilates class on the deck once a day uh during the week and then a paddle board where you're on the board in the water doing the exercises with the instructor. So that's been a very popular class though we're kind of limited because the number of paddle boards we can put in the pool. Uh so that's some of our opportunities to expand program programming over the last year. What I wanted to highlight in this next slide is the reces
037program. Reces is the program we use, operational program we use to uh advertise the classes, schedule when they're available, build our rosters and do the registration and collect um the fees uh through online uh systems. So if you look in 2021, we had 304 total classes offered. This is just what we do in the reces world, not everything we do. Um, and so we've increased every year until this year. And really that 40 classes down is a result of the two things I've mentioned. Our greatest challenge of staffing and having staff available to provide the opportunities we want and doing some adjusting in the craft classes in terms of having that available. So I'd really kind of say we've we've maintained. And then this fall uh last summer and this fall we have uh some
038new opportunities. Um we've coordinated contractwise for some online opportunities kind of adult focused and our adult enrichment to offer guitar lessons and piano lessons. So uh it's an opportunity we'll we'll see how it works. It's it's um I think a unique uh and creative idea to try to connect the community in a different way. And um we hired a a guard and a coach this year uh that really is in the water polo. I mean the Olympic level water polo or in the deep end in a treading water and doing that. So we've offered some offered some weekend opportunities to do drills and teach some basic skills in that world. Um it's connected with some of the high school swim team kids, some of the club kids, couple walk-ins just to see what it's like.
039So, we're trying to keep that going again and see if we can't expand that as a unique opportunity, especially as we come into some uh Olympic years here because those Olympic sports always cycle up with people interested them after the Olympic years. Finally, our last uh goal is always to improve what we're doing operationally. I think the first one here is really more this fall in the 2025 26 school year. Um I kind of highlighted it. I've had it in my head. We've been working. This is part of the three-year progress for the rec department moving out of the building and physically being here and um streamlining and coordinating our procedures and their operating procedures with district policies, different district procedures to make sure we're in line and in sync with everything. We've been working
040a lot with Marissa this fall on on our selection and onboarding and those processes so that when a recck department employee comes in, we are following the same steps that is being used for part-time custodians, janitors, assistants and teachers so that we are consistent across the board. I like to call it our stopping recruiting advertising and putting everything out there and that's our we can and that's our advertising to make sure that what we say is the same and making all the uh administrative and legal statements that we have to make uh consistently. Then it's the selection process, the interview steps, the papers. If we inter well, we always do interview a bit, but sometimes like with an auxiliary, a teenager, we're not going to do an interview committee with them. But our positions like
041um all the positions, the maintenance, the secretaries, the aquatics director, those positions, we would have interview processes. So we have the same forms and the same process used as we do for hiring teachers or administrators. Now that would be consistent across the board. So then onboarding and bringing them in and getting the system so they can be paid, so they can be trained. We um created a vector training section for the things that would be required uh in the wreck world also to meet our obligations at the at the state level in terms of mandatory reporting and what kids have to do there. And then finally, in our world, professional development really comes down where we're the most detailed really is in the aquatics world and the requirements for lifeguards, instructors, and all that to
042meet our state requirements when we're inspected in the pool to make sure we're safe there. So, a lot of time has been spent with that this year and to improve our operational procedures. I would say community connections is one of our goals. We're trying to do that this summer. I wanted to bring this back from the playground going from 187 to 241. We connected with Chartwells and we connected with our summer playground uh the summer playground with the summer lunch program instead of just running it um through the summer school like we have for the three weeks of summer school. we connected and said why aren't we doing this for playground so we extended it for playground and the results were one I think directly more people participating in the playground program again um but
043also our average daily attendance went up um about between 15 to 20 kids over at Parkside where one of the sites is and then our Riverside site was between 25 and 30 kids higher on an average daily attendance putting uh Parkside in the 50 range every day correction in the 50 range every day in Parkside in the 30 35 range every day with kids. Um post um summer school because we those are also our summer school sites during the summer school three weeks. They'd have as many as 75 80 kids participating every day with the playground program afterwards. And then finally, facilities wise, our big uh upgrade started last year in the planning phase uh and working with the tech department. Um, our control units are now online. And why is that a a thing?
044Um, I I just copied from the Beexis website because we use their system to monitor our pool chemicals. It's a automated system. So, if it goes down, it feeds the chlorine. If it goes up or down for the acid to keep it right and and keep our pools balanced and and within state specs. Um, it's a remote access and given how our primary person, our pri primary pool operator responsible for pools has responsibilities over at the uh, maintenance office in the old wreck building on Morning Side, he can pop up on his phone and anywhere he's working anytime during the day and have warnings set up and receive warnings at the pools out of uh, sink uh, per se. um to be able to go over and deal with it immediately instead of waiting for
045the check in the morning when the guards check it and the midday check and midday check when we connect the uh manual checks to the chemical to the automated system. So um those are the things we've done this year to prove efficiency connections and uh procedures. >> So with that are there any questions? >> First of all thank you. Um before I share, does anybody have any comments or questions um to bring forward a clarification? It was I don't even remember what page, but it was towards the beginning. Your adult enrichment was down almost by half from last year. Is that more due to staffing? >> I look at my number again to remind myself. >> Let's see. It's um on page six. It went from 766 to 404. >> Biggest chunk of that was
046the adjustment in the craft classes and availability of instructors. >> Okay. That's what I thought. >> Uh just a comment. I uh visited a summer school and when you were talking about uh the playground [snorts] offerings, I'm glad that that's offered throughout the summer um because a lot of kids were having a lot of fun and like you said, there's a lot of I I visited uh Parkside and and Lakeside or um Riverside. Thank you, Karen. Um, yeah, and there there were a large participant of uh students and it's awesome that there's lunches available there for them. >> Yeah, hopefully we can continue to grow that this next summer. Um, I just want to say thank you for like the creative thinking. Um, especially like with water polo that you had a person with a
047passion for it that then led to. Um, so I really appreciate the creative thinking as well as like guitar and piano just thinking about how to um get more people engaged. Uh, so when you spoke about that craft class and things being switched around, I'm curious, do we do any surveys or feedback forms regarding um those who have participated, especially adults in our programs, and they have the opportunity to give us feedback. So, for example, I'm not sure what the switch was that it had to do with that decrease of 300 um attendees. I'm just curious, do we do that? And if not, is that something we want to maybe look at? >> We have not done that since I've started. Uh it has been at times a practice in the rec department. I found
048the forms for it. I've done it in previous programs, just not here yet. We have discussed starting it. It's just >> great. >> We haven't moved it forward yet. >> Good. I'm glad it's on your radar. That's awesome. Thank you. Um and then I was also curious um early childhood programs that have decreased. Um, I just think about the importance of how do we get our littles in the doors um so that they hopefully continue to grow with us into um throughout their schooling. It that was primarily due to um >> we instructor staffing. It's that's a tough one at times. So a lot of times teachers in the district will take that up. But um >> as anywhere schedules are busy and trying to find somebody to offer a quality program and advertise out.
049Our most successful means has been working through Teresa before she left uh and now um Melissa hopefully um working with those teachers or advertising that out uh when we when Kent does uh the blasts through the uh all staff network. That has tended to be our most successful recruiter to bring people in for those positions. You know, word of mouth. It may not be one of our teachers, but then they talk to somebody that they know outside the community and that comes in. So, but it's not a very reliable method to rely on word of mouth, but it does work sometimes. >> So, curious about that. Um, what types of classes have we offered in the past that we weren't able to offer? >> So, um, they're all similar. Some basic reading stuff. Um, cooking
050classes. I'm trying to think of the names of it. I can see where they're at right in the program guide. Sorry. The names are um, Wiggles and Giggles. little sports in terms of some of the, you know, the >> uh elementary appropriate level games that you can play with kids. Uh >> uh little kid yoga, >> you know, bringing the littles in for yoga. Those are the things everywhere from um reading uh focused classes, fitness, >> sports classes. >> Yeah. I'm just curious how we as as we're looking at declining enrollment and the importance of uh changing that outlook, how we could maybe think differently about I don't have the answer. Um I'm just curious how we could look at that. Um and then I have another question which I should have asked ahead of
051time because I don't know if you are going to answer this or Mr. Steinbart or Mr. Gerlock. Um funding. I know there are different funding sources that go into um this type of opportunity or these type of opportunities. I believe there's some title funding possibly. I'm just curious for our um our audience as we're looking at if we get or don't get a referendum or how we're moving forward and we have to look at everything. I'm just curious what goes into the funding for um these types of programs. Um well really the way I've planned my budgets out and looking at it is >> um I start with a spending plan and and develop that uh for what my costs are going to be through the year >> um so that I know what I
052have but to pay for those costs right now I've looked at two primary sources the fund levy which we have a slice of not the entire piece >> which Mike manages and divides that out and then it's our fee structure that I present every February on the fees we collect. >> Awesome. >> Um to do that, um I'd be interested to research and find if there's any other title programming that overlaps uh with what we do to add to that. Uh but I'm not >> there's all the titles. I just thought one of them might fit. >> Yeah. >> Um but >> I Well, Mrs. Motor, I mean, Mr. Greymon's spot on. Uh the just for the record to your answer your question, we're not using federal grant title programming in specific in the community
053education program. Its main funding source as Bill alluded is is the local tax levy piece to that which is outside of revenue limits uh as we've discussed throughout to the fall. And so it's it's becomes kind of in a self- sustaining scenario. [snorts] I mean to answer the programmatic question, not to maybe belabor it, you know, Bill and I talk, we meet every two weeks. We have a standing meeting for this purpose and funding is the issue at hand as always in terms of being responsible to that. the the the wreck program faces the same challenges and think of our conversation last Friday about you know lifeguard wages um you know and the affordability of trying to stay competitive to continue to see the types of numbering what you see tonight are the results of
054really excellent programming but we understand there's a funding element and that's a direct communication with with Bill and I and and with Matt and something that if you you know we always are trying to consider and manage moving forward forward. So, um it's not directly related to the referendum, but as you know, the total tax levy is part of the the referendum considerations. So, we try to be as responsible as we can with that. So, >> thank you. I just thought as we talk about this continually, it's important we talk about each piece of it. So, thank you. Um and again, like what great opportunities and I'd hate to that we wouldn't be able to have them. So, thank you for for that. >> No, got good people making it work for us. So, thank
055you. >> Yeah, thank you. >> Sure. Okay. Can you explain the Optum Fitness and what that was? >> Optum is like Silver Sneakers. It's a um insurance incentive program for seniors on Medicare, Medicaid >> to come in and have a discounted rate >> uh in the pools. And then we uh actually That's one of Sue's primary lanes. We take the numbers through our recck desk tracking when the people come in and then we get a reimbursement from them that cover part of the cost. And most of those people are charged a dollar to come in for their classes and then there's another makeup uh uh to help make up the cost that the optimum company pays. So, >> one other quick thing I really appreciate is that how you're linking in um older students and
056coaches uh just to get again that link and how do we get kids more involved in the opportunities that we have. So, thank you. >> Think you're off the hook. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> That concludes my brief. Thank you. >> All right. Uh and then Mr. Steinbart um community survey update. >> Yeah, I just wanted to make sure that the board and listening audience um has an idea of where we are with the survey. As of 7:45 a.m. today, our parents that have responded to the survey went up from 214 up to 486. Staff went from 241 to 368. our community went from 70 to 933 um for a total of what was 525 and is now 1,787. And there will be a reminder going out to parents and staff again tomorrow
057morning that there's still time to take it until the 26th. But again, with the numbers that we're seeing right here, that's a great a great number, a great count to be able to get some good data on what our community is wanting from us in terms of a possible referendum question on the ballot on April 7th, but we'll [snorts] know more. Um, again, they will be here April April, they'll be here December 8th to go over the referendum questions with us and kind of debrief us on what they found at that time. >> Um, thank you. And then also another thank you. Uh we had some survey question nights and um really appreciate um I know there were a number not as many as we would like to be there but there were some really
058good questions and so thank you to those who took time to come in ask those questions. Um I know um Ebony Vision was present to ask some questions or a representative as well as um Birds of a Feather as well as um Joe Moore was here. I just it was really good to have people come and um really lean in asking hard questions but then leaning into learning. So, um I appreciate all of those as well as um those people that are like highlighting it on their Facebook or sharing with others the importance of completing the survey because it just helps us make decisions. So, thank you. All right. Then, board member reports. So, student staff activities. Uh is there um Mr. Frame, anything you wanted to share? >> Uh I did not do much
059these past two weeks. I did go to um Roseno's um choir um musical. Uh they did uh No Place Like Roseno. Uh as my daughter goes there. Um Mrs. Gustavis did a wonderful job. Uh all the kids did really good. Um it was just nice seeing the kids have fun up there. >> Yeah. Thank you, Mrs. Panau. Um, continuing to meet with principles pertaining to the 250th anniversary, I met with uh Nick Schultus at Evans, Amy Jans at Parkside, Jenny Hughes at Py, and Mr. Brunbar at Rosno. And just in general over each one of these, we hide highlighted TACI, which is the uh social studies textbook in the elementary schools. and what it provided and how it would be used pluses and minuses. Um, we also discussed parallels within the curriculum such as CKLA.
060There are different units we cited I cited uh parallels in CKL units. talked about music uh with the Star Spangled Banner and uh Francis Scott Key writing that as he watched Fort Mckenry burn in uh 1814. >> Um as well as some other more popular songs that were around the War of 1812. Uh also art. We talked about tptics and biffolds and wax museums and all other ways of coming at the not coming at it but teaching and reminding and so that the students are able to hear this more than more than once. Um, I also met again with Gina Marianda and we discussed films, podcasts, and other virtual programs. And she's in the process of creating and developing a website that teachers will be able to tap into and use through class link. >>
061That's great. Thank you, >> Mr. Lens. >> Um, nothing really. >> Okay, Mrs. Maine. So, I met with um Mr. Gayan um at Tyson and we went into the two e classrooms there um and just observed what was going on and discussed um not necessarily how to do things better, but what's going on and they they are really in need of some assistance, which they're working on at this point. Um so, that was that was good. Um and then I um attended Rosenos's um third through fifth grade um and uh Roseno Tiger concert again. Yes, Mrs. Gust Davis did a phenomenal job. Um and then I also attended donuts with grown-ups at Evans and they had donut holes. So >> that counts. >> It does count. They were still donuts, right? Um and I afterwards
062I met with Mr. Schultus and he was showing me how I ready pathways. um how they use the um data from that and how every child is tracked. And then we went into three first grade um classrooms. And it was really neat because each classroom was doing the exact same thing at the exact same time, which is, you know, it's so cool because then, you know, everybody's getting the same instruction. Um and then we also went into a second grade classroom and they I w observed um the I Ready pathways being used and I talked to a student who was doing it and um well I I didn't want to disturb her so I asked the teacher first you know what is she doing there and then she tapped the student and had the student
063explain it to me which was cool. So um and then we also went into a third grade classroom and got to meet a a new student there that day. It was their very first day. So, um, and then the next day I went to, um, Donuts with Grown-Ups at Robert's, and Mr. Henchel was at that one because they have nice big donuts. [laughter] Um, and I actually afterwards I was walking down the hall and I met Miss Mrs. Steamberg who's one of the educator development supervisors and that was interesting. We talked about her role and for both of them. Um, so that was really interesting. Um, yeah. >> Awesome. Thank you, uh, Mr. Oliver. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Oliver. Yes, thank you for attending. There were a number of schoolboard members that were able to
064attend. Um, so we appreciate that. Um, I am um I was at both survey sessions and then um I was invited I I was going to look up I'm pretty sure I don't want to get her name wrong, but Jen Berg uh is a Cub Scout leader and I'm pretty positive. Yep. Jen Bergen, sorry. Jen Bergen and her fourth grade uh cub scouts from Waters Py and Robert school and uh there were a number of Cub Scouts there and that is something. [laughter] It was really it was great. Um and they had questions for me regarding being on a school board and [snorts] um why we should have more recess and no homework and I said, "Well, why don't you tell me about that and how is that going to help you grow?" And they
065had some really good feedback and it was uh >> Yeah. So that was that. [snorts] Um all right then we will move on to our second public comment. So uh please come forward. We'll follow the same rules as before. >> Good evening. Sh Troder >> Antonio Godfrey 81 Fth Street. She put me to work. So, she get a whole box. >> So, I have a lot of um random uh stuff, but I wanted to make this because it's a week of thanks this week. So, I just wanted to go through a lot of things, but I wanted to start out with two things before I get into that. First, um I was really surprised. I was hope I was thinking I was going to walk into news reporters and standing room crowd only after the
066report card came out and the Fondelac high school's grade went down and I there's nobody here. So just wondering if that's coming to be a pattern that I've noticed where we were almost at the bottom in the school district and there it was bear in the audience and it's bear in the audience again. So, I just had to say that out loud. And then, um, I wanted to thank, um, for your report from the recck department. So, um, my daughter Sioanna was the equity coach back in 2017 for the school district and back then she had asked if that report could be broken down by race and um, it still hasn't been. and she was very um concerned that there weren't um many black and brown students involved in many of the wreck um programs.
067And she was asking, you know, like um I know some people go, "Well, you just sign up for them." But it's deeper than that, you know, like how are we talking to our students and, you know, um getting them excited? Um, I know at one time, and I don't know if this is happening now, but it was nice when my two kids swam for the FondeLac swim club, free and reduced lunch students in our district got half off their fees. And I didn't even know that, you know, so back then I was thinking, gosh, why aren't we, you know, saying that now? I don't know if that's the truth now. So, I'm just saying that's an example of how you could have how we could have back in the day at least. um you know,
068possibly got more kids involved because it was expensive, you know, especially for a single mom like me. But that was wonderful. My kids swam for the Fondelac swim club for years in my two youngest. Um I love it that the swim lessons are up. Of course, I'm going to say I love it that we had our first track and field camp because we're a track and field family. Spin camp. That was interesting to know. I didn't know that. But um I just came back from visiting my sister in Hawaii. And the reason we went is because my um niece is in competition band for her high school and the flags and um uh well that group of the band. I'm sorry. I'm not getting a a word for that. But the flag um part of
069it, man, they had tons. And I was like, I bet they do in Wisconsin. I just haven't been keeping up with the competitive band world lately. But I thought that was great that we started that here in town. Water polo. My Zakiya, my daughter's Zakia. We almost started going to the um northern part of Illinois for a water polo camp, but I couldn't fit it in my schedule with my other kids because that back then was the closest um high school like camp or learning lessons of water polo. So, I am so excited that that's here now, too. Um and then, um also that summer lunch program included in the uh wreck the playground stuff. And then um I'm sorry this is all like I just was writing notes. That's great. Um for Ebony Vision,
070the name of our summer program at Maplewood Commons is play, read, and belong. So that um that stat about it decreasing with the younger kids. Um we feel that play, read, and belong is important. So, you know, like the little um giggles class or whatever, like that's all part of learning and literacy and belonging. So, hopefully um he said that they're working on doing some new stuff with that. Um the real reason I came up here was to say thank you to the Fondelac School District from Ebony Vision. um supporting our Junth celebration financially and with volunteering and attendance. The athletic director and coaches coordinating student athlete volunteers this year for us. We have staff volunteering for our herd game concessions that we do once a month for Ebony Vision to raise money for our
071program. and Tiffany Milo Cavage at the high school also helps coordinate getting some students to show up to volunteer for Ebony Vision for the herd game for their volunteering hours. Um Erica Deliden and Fondi Central students, they're stuffing over a hundred wolves from Marine Park Technical College for our Christmas program or our holiday program out at Maplewood Commons this year. So, some of these things I'm just going to mention is how Katie had said in the past with community, we keep hearing the word community, including the school district. We've given 70 art kits out to this day and we've given them out to Fondi Central, Hope on the Block, and other um um places in town. And it's just from donations that when we sold our rib tips on a stick, you know, at the
072high school and raised some money, we were able to purchase stuff to in return give to Fondi Central students and in the community. Um, our books, we try to keep up the up with the >> the Yep. the newest the newest books that come out. The um Cynthia Revo book just came out like five days ago. Um, I brought a cookbook just to show you all the different kinds of books that we are able to purchase with the school district helping with all these volunteers and stuff. And I did bring the cookbook on purpose to let you know that Mr. Steinbirth um and his uh wife took out a cookbook, a black food cookbook. And we're having Sophie before she left for WMadison um try to cook a meal or two out of the cookbook.
073Um, we're doing a hundred Arctic kits just like this art kit. I just didn't have one with me where um, it has like kinetic sand and stuff in it for the holidays which are like winter scene kits. They're they're actually amazing. Marine Park Technical College. Um they gave us a like a $1,000 to get hair black hair care products for the FondeLac school district along with Miss Carrie who's a Fondelac County social worker who has an office at FondeLac High School who gets um internship students from Maran University who she in turn did a bake sale herself at Maran University to raise her own money for black hair care products for the FondeLac students. See how this is all like just wonderful, thankful. >> We're getting close. I don't want to stop you, but keep
074going quick. Oh, we're almost done. >> Yes. Okay. And Okay, then I'll leave it at this. December 6th from 9 to 2, just fair and Urban Fuel, we're having our um holiday um you can buy candles, t-shirts from Ebony Vision. Lunar and Lakes will be there selling books and it's just a way to shop for the holidays and support Ebony Vision. So we can in turn return to the students. >> Thank you. >> Oh, 9 to two. >> December 6th. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other community members? Okay. Seeing none, then we're going to move into other appropriate matters. Are there any other appropriate matters? [snorts] Um, I do. I just want to say um thank you to Ebony Vision for your partnership and collaboration and giving and getting. Um I
075also saw on Facebook a thank you to Birds of Feather who um had done a grant program and I saw that they were throughout our school district giving um grants uh as well as the sock drive. So thank you for our community members. Um we talked about the survey. Um, also I'm not sure if we had our our all the Veterans Day events. Um, thank you for the district uh for schools putting those on. Um, and then the last thing I just thought um would be um interesting for our board to know is that we will be partnering with uh WASB, so the Wisconsin Association of School Boards. When it comes to Mr. Steinbars evaluation, we decided to go with um um it's a very very minimal cost. Um but I we thought it would
076be good to have an outside agency and um um the Wisconsin Association of School Boards does just that and does evaluations and so we thought it would be good to partner with them as we move forward on Mr. Steinbar's evaluation. So, um we've been working on getting that going forward. So, all right then. Um uh prior to adjournment, we're going to be adjourning to an executive session if someone would like to make the motion. [snorts] >> It's a long one. >> It is. I move to adjourn to adjourn to executive session to discuss pupil expulsions pursuant to Wisconsin state statute uh 1B and FB be considering dismissal demotion licensing or discipline of any public employee or person licensed by a board or commission or the investigation of charges against against such person or considering the
077grant or denial of tenure for universal university falye member and the taking of formal action on any such matter provided that the Faly member or other public employee persons licensed is given actual notice of any evidentiary hearing that may be held prior to final action being taken and any meeting at which final action may be taken. Considering financial, medical, social, or personal histories or disciplinary data or specific persons, preliminary consideration of specific personnel problems, or the investigation of charges against specific persons, except where PAR B applies, if discussed in public, would likely have the substantial adverse effect upon the reputation of any person referred to in such histories or data or involved in such problems or investigations. Second. >> Motion by Mr. Frame. A very quick second by Mr. Labyrin. And could we please have
078the role? >> Pano. >> Yes. >> Frame. >> Yes. >> Uh Lyrren, >> yes. >> Maine, yes. Oliver, >> yes. >> Motor, >> yes. Motion carries 6. The regular meeting is adjourned at 6:07 and we will start our uh executive close session at 63. Other um so thank you Have a good night, guys.